"[StoryCraft Software is] the best
story-development tool on the market
today..."[Click here for full review]Charles
Deemer, ACE Award-winning playwright and
webmaster, Screenwriter's and Playwright's
Home
Page

"This
elegant program was designed to teach
perfect, pure storytelling.... And, it
delivers exactly that, helping writers to
take a mere idea and make it into a full,
living breathing story."

John
Scott Lewinski,Scr(i)pt Magazine

"It's not
hard to figure out why it's become a
standard.... I've encountered a lot of
people who use StoryCraft and rave
about it, and I recommend it...."

"The
program is extremely easy to use and is
well constructed. The user has only to
follow the steps outlined in the tutorials
that appear with each section, and they
are well on their way to creating their
masterpiece."
And: "StoryCraft...allows your
creative juices to flow.."

Thomas
B. Griffith, Editor-in-Chief,
Screenwrite Now!

"StoryCraft is...easy to use, well organized, and
has very helpful tutors.... I was very
pleased with its user friendliness and
found no glitches."

Patti
Cearley, Writer's
Workshop

"...an
ideal program!"

National
Writer's Association

"The
Jarvis Method...has been the
accepted standard for years."
And: "[StoryCraft writer's
software] works like magic."

Michael
Dale, Writers'
Journal

And
here are a few more extraordinary
commendations from among the literally
hundreds of laudatory compliments that
have, over the years, been given to
StoryCraft writer's software (before
the days of StoryCraft, etc.).

StoryCraft
writer's software is frequently mentioned
or reviewed in Writer's
Digest. It was
Lawrence
DiTillio,
writing for Writer's
Digest,
who was among the first major reviewers to
take seriously the then-revolutionary
program.

And
in the popular national writers' magazine
Writers'
Journal,
software reviewer
Michael
Dale
states succinctly that StoryCraft writer's
software is "a story processing program
that works like magic."

And
in the Writer's
Digest's
overview of writer's software by
Edgar
Bryan,
StoryCraft writer's software was among the
highest rated software programs for
writers.

In
the Fiction
Writer
magazine
, Keir Graff notes that "Writer John
Jarvis's amalgamation of the teachings of
Aristotle, Joseph Campbell, Lajos Egri,
Rudyard Kipling and others recognizes the
equal, intertwining importance of five
distinct elements of fiction -- concept,
category, type, components, and
structure...[and the software]
lays out your choices in these categories
step by step." Graff pictures Hollywood
execs using StoryCraft even for evalating
films: "Though you can use his guidelines
to create a novel or a screenplay, one
pictures a bunch of Hollywood execs using
this type of material as a checklist, much
as Joseph Campbell's works are often used:
There must be a quest, a helper, a mentor,
a nemesis, etc."
Graff also marvels
at how the software improved his own work:
"It did do interesting things to my story.
Reviewing the character archetypes
presented to me, I felt my buddy tale
seemed unbalanced and [I] added a
love interest.... In StoryCraft parlance,
Julie...is the antagonist, for she spurs
the change in Travis.... Hank is the gate
guardian because he warns Travis off from
his goals...." Working within "the narrow
parameters of the Jarvis method made me
feel my story was more
manageable."

Furthermore,
a review by Patti
Cearley
in the prestigious
Writer's
Workshop
magazine , observes the way in which
StoryCraft "forces tight writing which is
what keeps a story moving and
interesting." Dr. Cearley states further:

"StoryCraft
delivers and [I] give it a
thumbs up. The tutors give you the nuts
and bolts to put your story together,
and it's a flexible program enabling
different treatments and different
types of stories...."

"The
program takes you through the creation
of a completed work of fiction. This
will not be somebody else's work of
fiction but a story you...write!"

In
the prestigious
PC
Magazine's
overview of writer's software programs, it
is emphasized that "StoryCraft is far less
complicated to use than they [all the
other programs] are -- and has a much
lower price tag."

In
a remarkable review from the
New
York
Screenwriter
, the reviewer was particularly struck by
the sheer volume of information contained
in the StoryCraft writer's software
program.

Even
The
Nightmare Express: The Newsletter for
Horror
Writers
states that StoryCraft writer's software
"provide[s] computer users with
the capability of writing a complete,
sophisticated story. Story writing, it
appears, has finally entered the 20th
century."

Indeed,
StoryCraft has been one of the most
reviewed and talked-about writer's
software programs around, including top
endorsements from Skip Press in his bible
of screenwriters' reference books,
The
Insider's
Guide,
and from John Scott Lewinski in his review
column for the prestigious
scr(i)pt
magazine.

In
the publication of the
National
Writers
Association,
the editors observed that StoryCraft
writer's software is "an ideal program,"
especially "for those who desire a more
structured look at writing." Indeed,
StoryCraft virtually forces its users to
sit down and write rather than to grope
haphazardly for a story.

In
the North
Carolina Writers' Network's The
Network
News,
the editor writes, in part:

"StoryCraft...allows
writers not just to type and process
words, but also to create and structure
whole stories, a story-processing
program!"